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10 000 Korona Cash Ticket, Kolozsvár
| Issuer | Osztrák-Magyar Bank, Kolozsvári Főintézet (Austro-Hungarian Bank, Kolozsvár Branch) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Austro-Hungarian Krone (1892-1918) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain light blue-green paper and carries a single centrally placed guilloche medallion in pale blue, with an ornate interlaced border enclosing the numeral 10.000 in large open figures. The remainder of the surface is unprinted, leaving a clean, minimalist presentation typical of emergency cash ticket reverses of this period. |
| Reverse lettering | 10.000 |
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In the final weeks of the Austro-Hungarian Empire's collapse, branch offices of the Osztrák-Magyar Bank were authorized to issue their own cash tickets — Kassenscheine — to address acute banknote shortages as the central monetary system disintegrated. The Kolozsvár branch emission is among the last of these, dated 1918, when the city was still nominally under Hungarian administration but would pass to Romania under the Treaty of Trianon just two years later.
The political transition created an immediate redemption problem: Romanian authorities were under no obligation to honor Austro-Hungarian branch issues at par, and many holders of these tickets took significant losses. Surviving examples are relatively scarce — not because few were printed, but because most were surrendered or destroyed during currency exchanges conducted under considerable duress.